425. Winter Wedding
"Knight Surdak, here's a letter from you!"
As he passed through the dormitory administrator's room, Surdak was stopped by the dormitory administrator, Aunt Susan, who leaned out of the half-open window and held a delicate letterhead in her hand, even the handwriting on the envelope was in the most popular script of the Grimm Empire, and the handwriting was quite beautiful and smooth.
Surdak stopped, walked to the caretaker's porter, thanked Aunt Susan, and took the envelope in his hand, he couldn't think of who wrote to him, Natasha and Rita and Selena didn't write letters, and there was no postman in the village of Wall.
Surdak opened the delicate envelope and contained a delicate invitation card, which read:
"Honorable Knight Surdak: Bird. Baron Camp and Nora. Miss Hoyle will be married on the morning of December 9th at the Temple of the City of Highlandza, and I hope you will be able to come to the wedding with your blessings......"
I didn't expect the Bird tax officer to have a wedding with Miss Hoyle so soon!
Surdak took the invitation card with a faint scent of jasmine, stood on the stairs and sighed, just over a month after the Ice Lake Manor and the Winter Hunting Event, Baron Llewellyn was already lying in the cemetery outside the city, and the Bird Tax Officer actually won Miss Hoyle's heart. Hoyle is Miss Hoyle's full name.
……
Surdak treated the leg of the Gubolai horse in the stable as usual, and although he gave the Gubolai horse a strengthening potion, because the Gubolai horse's leg had been broken on the battlefield before, although it healed quickly this time, it was clear that the two injuries had a great impact on the Gubolai horse.
The Gubolai horse had lost a lot of weight lately, and although he was hoisted by a leash, he often lost his temper, and in the morning when the keeper of the stables put in the hay, he was almost bitten by it, and he was probably worried about his future fate, and only when Surdak was present, he seemed a little quieter and less agitated.
So in the past few days, Surdak will run to the stable whenever he has time, after all, the legs of the Gubolai horse have a lot to do with him, knowing that the full-covered demonic pattern construction armor is so heavy, and he is still wearing a full set of armor to walk around the knight's training ground.
Surdak thought of the Ferdinand Scholars, who might be interested in helping his Gubo Lai Ma get a stronger leg, and when he was ready to get better, he went to the Ferdinand Scholar to ask.
He picked up a brush and brushed the mane of the Guboraima, who kept arching the horse's head into his bosom as if looking for comfort.
"Don't worry, it'll get better!" He said to Guborima.
At this moment there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the keeper of the stables would not have come at this time, and when he turned around, he realized that it was Carl, who pinched his nose and walked into the stable, and his eyes were intently watching his feet, for fear of stepping on the horsemanure.
"I heard they said you're over there......" Karl said, gesturing to the training ground.
Surdak smiled and asked Karl, "Why are you here?" ”
Karl took out a delicate wedding invitation from his arms, shook it at Surdak in his hand, and asked him, "Did you also receive Bird's wedding invitation?" ”
Surdak is not surprised by this.
Carl is very good friends with the Bird tax officer, and it is strange that Carl did not receive the invitation!
Surdak nodded, put down the brush in his hand, and said to Karl, "Hmm! I didn't expect the wedding to be held so soon, and speaking of which, the arm of the Bird tax officer is almost as good as it gets? ”
Karl leaned against the manger and pouted, "The last time I saw him, his arm was still wrapped in bandages, and he shouldn't have been able to do it yet, but it doesn't affect their wedding, and it won't stop the baby who will be born in a few months." ”
No wonder the wedding was not chosen to be held in the spring when the flowers were blooming, and it was feared that this baby who was in a hurry to give birth would make the wedding even more embarrassing.
“…… Winter is such a nice season! Surdak sighed.
Karl asked Surdak, "Are you interested in being Bird's best man?" ”
“……?”
Surdak stared at Karl suspiciously, turned to him and asked, "Aren't you the best friend of the Bird tax officer?" Don't you want to be his chief best man? ”
The two men left the stable, which was filled with the smell of horse manure, and the caretaker of the hay at the door of the stable greeted Surdak with a smile.
Karl followed behind Surdak and smiled and said, "Of course! I'm the best man, of course, but you know that Miss Hoyle doesn't have many friends in the city of Highlandsa, and the person with whom she has the best relationship is Darcy. Christie, she was invited by Miss Hoyle to be the first bridesmaid, and you know my relationship with Mariana, so I am inevitably a little embarrassed to be the best man......"
"So ......?" Surdak habitually rubbed his temples.
"I think you should join the groomsmen." Karl finally said what he meant, and he had invited Surdak to be the best man for the Bird Tax Collector.
Surdak thought of the redhead, but he didn't want to have too much to do with her, so he hurriedly refused: "Forget it, this is my first time attending a wedding, I think it's better for me to stand quietly in the audience and be a spectator." ”
The two walked along the wooden railing of the knight's training ground in the direction of the dormitory, where the trainee knights were armed with spears and constantly dodged the wooden man at one end to charge, and from time to time there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves.
Karl looked at Surdak with a strange expression: "Aren't you already married?" How to say that it is the first time to attend a wedding! ”
Surdak patted his forehead vigorously and said pretending to be calm: "Please, how can the simple wedding ceremony I held in Vol Village be compared to this kind of wedding ceremony. ”
"Well, in that case, then whatever you want." Karl didn't care about the slightest unnaturalness shown by Surdak, apparently he was also struggling with his own problem and was thinking about how to solve it, but casually said: "Let me think about how to solve this embarrassing problem again......"
Surdak decided to change the subject, he really had little experience in attending aristocratic weddings, so he asked Karl, "I don't have a few days left, what kind of wedding gift do I have to prepare?" ”
However, Carl believed that Surdak should not know anything about weddings, so he stopped and thought about it seriously, and said:
"Well, usually we can buy a bouquet of flowers......"
……
The wedding of the Bird tax collector was very solemn, and it was the first time that Surdak had attended the wedding.
The winter morning was still a little cold, although Surdak got out of bed early, but because of the delay for some breakfast, the temple of Highlandsa was a little far from the knight's academy on Dorenval Street, and the Gubolai horse was also kept in the stable because of a leg injury, and in the morning there was no free magic caravan, so he had to walk all the way.
When I came to the entrance of the temple, I found that many guests were already walking towards the temple one after another.
He didn't have a proper dress, he only walked into the temple in a well-ironed guard battalion uniform, the large arched iron door was open inward, but there was some dead grass between the gaps in the bluestone slabs of the main road, which made the temple look a little dilapidated and depressed, the whole temple was a Gothic style building, Surdak walked down the stone steps into the temple hall, all the metal parts of the statues on both sides of the road were torn out, many of the statues became empty in their hands, and even a few statues became mutilated.
However, there is a new red carpet on the main road near the hall, and on a cold winter day, there are flower baskets composed of flowers on both sides of the road, and the flowers in these flower baskets have been frozen and are wrapped in a thin layer of ice at the most beautiful time, which is so delicate.
The guests gathered in the hall of the temple, and although the abandoned temple had been temporarily cleaned, many places were still covered with dust and looked like it had been ignored for a long time.
The guests were talking about the wedding of the Bird Tax Collector, and some said they could not understand why the wedding ceremony was held in this temple, which had been abandoned for a long time.
Actually, as Bernard. Christie's niece, Miss Hoyle, had a better choice, and Christie's Castle was the perfect place for the wedding.
However, it seems that some people know the inside story, saying that the tax collector and Miss Hoyle thought that they had been in bad luck lately, and therefore thought that the wedding should be held in the temple, perhaps with the blessing of Lady Liberty.
Speaking of this, the guests all closed their mouths again, to be honest, Miss Hoyle seemed to be possessed by a mildew god, the last six months have been even more unlucky, even the Bird tax officer has lost an arm because of this, which further fulfills the truth of the rumors, and some people even secretly feel fortunate about this, fortunately Miss Hoyle was not chosen because of the large manor and a large piece of fertile land, otherwise it is possible that he will lose his arm now......
Wearing a gorgeous aristocratic gown, the Bird tax collector rode a black-scaled horse with black coat to the temple, Carl and three other young men formed a group of best men and rode behind the Bird tax officer, although the Bird tax collector broke an arm and the wound was not completely healed, but for the sake of this wedding, the Bird tax collector still installed a prosthetic leg of Orianna's magic shop on the broken arm, making him look like an ordinary person.
Although the tax collector had some light makeup on his face, the wedding preparations and his injured arm had made him look unusually haggard these days, and his temples had been stained with some hoarfrost in middle age, and he greeted the guests with a smile, and waited at the door of the temple hall with the groomsmen, until Miss Hoyle appeared outside the temple hall where the wedding ceremony was held......
Miss Hoyle wore a snow-white wedding dress and held Bernard. Marquis Christie walked in from outside the temple hall with his arm.
Darcy Christie and Miss Brenda followed Miss Hoyle as bridesmaids. The Marquis Christie gave Miss Hoyle's hand to the Bird Tax Collector and said a few more kind words to him.
This temple has been completely idle, and even a lot of valuable things in the temple have been emptied, and seeing that only the metal bracket is left where the torch should have been inserted in the temple wall, it makes him think that the torch of holy light in his magic waist bag should be a certain artifact in the temple, although it can't really be the torch on the wall, but it also makes Surdak feel a lot of feelings in his heart, thinking that he must not take out the torch of holy light at this time.
Originally, the wedding ceremony was supposed to be presided over by the high priest of the temple, but now the witness has become Bernard, the consul of the city of Highlandza. Marquis Christie,
Carl and Miss Brenda stood next to each other, so that it was less abrupt, and Mrs. Christie was in front of the seat, which she could not have attended with Carl. Christie, however, kept a straight face the whole time, and occasionally smiled at Miss Hoyle, but it was also very reluctant.
At the wedding, the couple took an oath and accepted the blessings of the guests, and the wedding ceremony ended smoothly.
The celebrant settles in for a short break, followed by a wedding dinner and dance party that lasts until late.
As the owner of Hoyle's estate, Miss Hoyle held a great deal of property in her hands, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she was the richest woman in the city of Highlandsa. The niece of the Marquis Christie, the dinner after the wedding was naturally held in Christie's castle, and Carl said that the chefs at the dinner were specially invited from the city of Bena.
Surdak still has something to look forward to.
Surdak found Karl who was finally free, and several knights of the guard battalion who were familiar with Karl also came over, and everyone was ready to find a place to rest together for a while, at this time, he saw the voice of Captain Sauron appear at the gate outside the temple, and when the wedding couple and guests were almost gone, he said to Carl, Surdak and others who were standing beside him with a serious face: "Knights, the dispatch order has come down, and you will go to the maca plane immediately." ”
Karl and Surdak couldn't help but look at each other, and the other guards and knights were also confused, but there was no news before.
And it was able to make Sauron get up from the hospital bed, and personally come out with an injury to announce the task to everyone, obviously this task is not trivial, Captain Sauron did not have time to ask questions for everyone, he glanced at Surdak, and then instructed everyone: "Before dark, a magic airship will arrive in Highlandsa City, before that, you must prepare your bags as soon as possible, and gather at the guard camp in the afternoon." ”
"In such a hurry?" Karl didn't expect to leave as soon as he said it, and said to Captain Sauron.
Captain Sauron nodded slightly, and said: "The specific mission will be announced on the airship, Surdak, you also make preparations, set off with the guard battalion, I will find someone to deal with it here at the Knight Academy, this time the incident happened suddenly, if you are here, it should be able to reduce unnecessary attrition......"
"Yes, Lord Sauron."
Surdak knew he couldn't refuse, so he readily agreed.